Thanks everyone for your patience yesterday. Yom Kippur is basically the holiest day of the year, so I was trying to stay offline as much as possible. Egg retrieval went very, very well. We got to the clinic bright and early - a half-hour early, in fact - and chilled out for a … Read More »
CD34: Shots.
Larry gave me my first (of many) PIO shots today. He did excellently. Shots. Shots. Shots. Shotsshots. Shots Shots. Shots. Shotsshots. Shots. Shots. Shots. Shotsshots. Shots. E'rybody. Spa day today. My toes are turquoise blue (my first pedi!) and my nails are … Read More »
CD33: Perfect Moment Monday – In a Blue Moon
This Labor Day weekend was the first I'd had off - really actually had to myself - for the first time since I was probably 4 years old. I've lived my life by the school year calendar, the first chilly morning hints of fall ushering in another year of backpacks, textbooks and new … Read More »
CD26: My Three Wishes for the New Year
L'shana tovah, folks. The Jewish New Year begins an incredibly sacred period known as the Days of Awe. In synagogues around the world, Jews began yet another new year by hearing the story of Hannah chanted aloud. It's interesting how the subject of infertility gets perhaps one … Read More »
CD5: Time to act.
Hey, did you know fertility treatments are expensive? Let me clue you in our a little scenario that's been eating away at us. So, we live in this great Commonwealth of Massachusetts and my fertility treatments are covered by my insurance, as mandated by state law. Piece. O. … Read More »
CD2: Pillpoppa
Last blog post of the day, I swear. In an effort to fully document this madness that is our first donor egg IVF cycle, I will be posting daily* with my CD numbers and various and sundry commentary as we get closer to retrieval and transfer, scheduled for mid-September. As in, … Read More »
CD 1: Where’s the baby?
Wrote this post in the car yesterday on the way home from a weekend of travel. Larry's great uncle turned 83 this year. He had read somewhere that the Biblical lifespan was 70 years, he decided to re-bar mitzvah at 83, since he figured it was like starting all over again. … Read More »
Unboxing My Fertility Meds
So, both my donor and I received our meds in the mail yesterday. Inspired by the unboxing video meme, I wanted to create a little unboxing slideshow of my own. I won't lie - I felt a bit like a kid on Hanukkah opening up this box last night. Am I a bit too gleeful? Perhaps. … Read More »
On Inevitability: Contemplating BFPs, Blogging in the Limelight and Necessary Naïveté
It's not a matter of IF, but WHEN. In that regard, I'm banking on the inevitable. While I remain a realist: that yes, our first shot at IVF might not work - I must remain positive. I must envision success. I must live and breathe as if I was pregnant right now. I am, in a … Read More »
Aligning Body & Mind to Make Room for Baby
Last week, just before I left for a brief mini-vacation this past weekend, I got a call from my clinic. They've given us a treatment plan and schedule. I'm to continue taking my Estrace and Provera pills through the end of August. I should hopefully bleed just after Labor Day … Read More »
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